For just the fourth time in the 48-year history of Stegeman Coliseum, a No. 1 ranked men’s basketball team strutted its stuff in the old but recently renovated arena on Tuesday night. Kentucky looked the part for much of the game in rolling to a 57-44 victory over Georgia. The Bulldogs hung around for the…
Darius Miller came off the bench to score 19 points and Kentucky cruised in its first game since returning to No. 1 in the rankings, beating Georgia 57-44 on Tuesday night. Miller, who had started eight of the previous nine games for the Wildcats (20-1, 6-0 Southeastern Conference), returned to the sixth-man role he had…
The newly minted No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats (19-1, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) travel to historic Athens, Ga., to take on Mark Fox’s Georgia Bulldogs (10-9, 1-4 SEC) in a late-night league showdown. The Cats will be looking for a measure of payback after last year’s 77-70 loss at Georgia in a game best described as a tough, physical…
Kentucky is back on top, but getting there hasn’t been the Wildcats’ problem. Staying has been the tricky part. The Wildcats (19-1, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) are the new No. 1 in the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN coaches polls, their second stint in the top spot this season and their third in three seasons…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Alabama
Darius Miller hit four free throws in the final minute and freshmen Marquis Teague and Anthony Davis each added two more as No. 2 Kentucky held on to beat Alabama 77-71 on Saturday for its 47th straight home victory. Kentucky (19-1, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) led the entire second half, but Alabama’s Trevor Releford scored all…
Anthony Davis is stepping up his game when some of the other freshmen are hitting the proverbial wall. He had a tremendous performance against Arkansas earlier this week, going for 27 points, 14 rebounds and seven blocks in the win. He also set the Kentucky single-season record for blocks – with 12 regular-season games remaining…
Luke Winn of SI.com became curious about the extent of the blocking range of Anthony Davis so he took to charting every single one of his blocks. He came up with this thing of beauty. Click the image to read the full article.
Only two Division I basketball teams have two or more players on the Wooden Award’s midseason top 25 list. One is North Carolina (Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Kendall Marshall). The other is Kentucky. It came as no surprise that the Wildcats’ two representatives on the Wooden list are freshmen, Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. And…
Well, duh. They had this to say about the young man: “Anthony Davis was nearly perfect for the Kentucky Wildcats in their 86-63 win against Arkansas. The freshman had 27 points, 14 rebounds and seven blocks. He’s the first player to reach all three of those levels in a game since Herbert Hill of the…